Re: Livecode all around the world

. There are clear limitations to this approach, of course, but you can't beat the cost-benefit. Regards, Sri -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Livecode-all-around-the-world-tp4698473p4698487.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive

Re: Livecode all around the world

click of a button and back. There > are clear limitations to this approach, of course, but you can't beat the > cost-benefit. > > Regards, > Sri > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Livecode-all-around-the-world-

Re: Livecode all around the world

+1 Anyone who has developed in dBase or it's derivatives understands what it means to speak English, and *STILL* have to learn a completely different development language! BTW Google Translate has it "legte x in y -Taste". Dutch, argueably close to German has it "zet x -knop in y". Still

Re: Livecode all around the world

. Craig -Original Message- From: Sri <sri...@gmail.com> To: use-revolution <use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 11:43 am Subject: Re: Livecode all around the world If you assign a word in, say, Mandarin for every LiveCode-specific word or phrase (keyword, comm

Re: Livecode all around the world

Maybe you could just replace the words with pictograms so it's language independent. put: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=put The human-understandable symbols are arbitrary so the fact that Livecode's symbols are derived from English words is missing the point. The symbol "put" could be

Re: Livecode all around the world

On Nov 5, 2015 10:32, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > > > On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:20 , Matt Maier wrote: > > The human-understandable symbols are arbitrary so the fact that Livecode's > symbols are derived from English words is missing the point. The

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On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:20 , Matt Maier > wrote: The human-understandable symbols are arbitrary so the fact that Livecode's symbols are derived from English words is missing the point. The symbol "put" could be "123XYZ" for all the computer cares.

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I see. Well then, let's toss out all the graphical OS'es ever written and go back to command line computing. Is seems the great exiperiment has failed. Bob S On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:25 , Matt Maier > wrote: I disagree. All of the responsibility

Re: Livecode all around the world

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I think there would still be people who want to be able to type "your synonym here" instead of "sudo." And that would still not help them understand what sudo does and it would still interfere with any attempt they make to research or ask for help. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Bob Sneidar

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Livecode all around the world

on Fri Oct 30, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Maybe LiveCode can grow the most > by moving beyond "English-like" to > embrace "Mandarin-like". :) That would be really extraordinary and could be precisely the kind of push that LiveCode needs to get salience among educators.